Dejounte Murray of the San Antonio Spurs helps bag and pack food products for the San Antonio Food Bank BackPack Program on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The players filled gallon-size bags with snack items that students in need will take home to supplement meals on weekends. Schools participating in the program are chosen based on their rates of free or reduced lunch program participation or their access to services such as food pantries. less

Dejounte Murray of the San Antonio Spurs helps bag and pack food products for the San Antonio Food Bank BackPack Program on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The players filled gallon-size bags with snack items that ... more

Photo: Billy Calzada, San Antonio Express-News

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Five-foot-tall Daliah Contreras works beside San Antonio Spurs center Dewayne Dedmon bagging and packing food products for the San Antonio Food Bank BackPack Program on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The players and others filled gallon-size bags with snack items that students in need will take home to supplement meals on weekends. Schools participating in the program are chosen based on their rates of free or reduced lunch program participation or their access to services such as food pantries. less

Five-foot-tall Daliah Contreras works beside San Antonio Spurs center Dewayne Dedmon bagging and packing food products for the San Antonio Food Bank BackPack Program on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The players and ... more

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Livio Jean-Charles, left, Davis Bertans and Dejounte Murray of the San Antonio Spurs bag and pack food products for the San Antonio Food Bank BackPack Program on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The players filled gallon-size bags with snack items that students in need will take home to supplement meals on weekends. Schools participating in the program are chosen based on their rates of free or reduced lunch program participation or their access to services such as food pantries. less

Livio Jean-Charles, left, Davis Bertans and Dejounte Murray of the San Antonio Spurs bag and pack food products for the San Antonio Food Bank BackPack Program on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The players filled ... more

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Shawn Ligon, operations manager of the San Antonio Food Bank, right, gives San Antonio Spurs player Kyle Anderson and others hunger awareness wrist bands after the players helped bag and pack food products for the BackPack Program of the food bank on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The players filled gallon-size bags with snack items that students in need will take home to supplement meals on weekends. Schools participating in the program are chosen based on their rates of free or reduced lunch program participation or their access to services such as food pantries. less

Shawn Ligon, operations manager of the San Antonio Food Bank, right, gives San Antonio Spurs player Kyle Anderson and others hunger awareness wrist bands after the players helped bag and pack food products for ... more

Photo: Billy Calzada, San Antonio Express-News

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Jonathon Simmons, right, and other San Antonio Spurs players assist with packing food products for the San Antonio Food Bank BackPack Program on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The players filled gallon-size bags with snack items that students in need will take home to supplement meals on weekends. Schools participating in the program are chosen based on their rates of free or reduced lunch program participation or their access to services such as food pantries. less

Jonathon Simmons, right, and other San Antonio Spurs players assist with packing food products for the San Antonio Food Bank BackPack Program on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The players filled gallon-size bags ... more

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San Antonio Spurs players Kyle Anderson, Ryan Arcidiacono, Davis Bertans, Dewayne Dedmon, Bryn Forbes, Livio Jean-Charles, Dejounte Murray and Jonathon Simmons helped bag and pack food products for the San Antonio Food Bank BackPack Program on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The players filled gallon-size bags with snack items that students in need will take home to supplement meals on weekends. Schools participating in the program are chosen based on their rates of free or reduced lunch program participation or their access to services such as food pantries. less

New Spurs prep meals for San Antonio students living in 'high-risk' conditions

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Some of the newest Spurs names joined Kyle Anderson and Jonathon Simmons at the San Antonio Food Bank Wednesday afternoon to prep weekend meal kits for students living in "high-risk" conditions.

Ryan Arcidiacano, Davis Bertans, Dewayne Dedmon, Bryn Forbes, Livio Jean-Charles and Dejounte Murray joined Anderson and Simmons to give the organization an assist in packing up the kits for the San Antonio Food Bank BackPack Program.

Campuses part of the program "distribute food packs to children who are identified by caring teachers and staff members as showing signs that he or she is living in a high-risk situation," a news release from the Spurs said.

The packs are given to the students "discretely" to take home on Fridays, the release added.

"It always means a lot when you can come out and help somebody," Anderson reflected in a Spurs.com video shot at the food bank. "It always mean a lot to come out here and make a difference, especially to us, with the position and situation we're in."

Along with helping out the city's youth, the charitable event provided an opportunity for the new team members to mesh over passes of pork and beans cans before having to pass the ball when the preseason tips off on Oct. 8 against the Atlanta Hawks.